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East Africa
Customs Union in Trouble

Officials of the East African Community's (EAC) secretariat think that most of the issues relative to the customs union protocol—which [...]

Published on 31/01/2004 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Politics

Africa, United States
Mohamed Baraka

The refining and marketing affiliate of the U.S. groups Chevron and Texaco, Caltex is returning to Tanzania and has appointed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.03.2001

Spotlight | East Africa
COOPERATION IT AIN'T

Signature of the treaty setting up East African Cooperation (EAC) by heads of states of the member-countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) is scheduled for Arusha on July 30 but harmonizing the three countries' legislation to create a regional common market will [.

Subscribers only Politics 17.07.1999

Africa
HONOUR ROLE OF LENDERS

The report presented in Brussels on April 10 by European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD), a consortium of NGOs [...]

Subscribers only 19.04.1997

East Africa
PARIS COUNTS POINTS

The meeting on East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) organized in Paris on November 4 by the parastatal Centre Français du [...]

Subscribers only 07.12.1996

East Africa
ADB TO UP EADB HOLDINGS

African Development Bank will shortly increase its participation in East Africa Development Bank capital. ADB at present holds 1.3 percent [...]

Subscribers only 05.10.1996

East Africa, France
FRENCH FIRMS CONFAB

French embassy trade missions in East Africa organized a meeting in Djibouti on February 2 and 3 of French banks [...]

Subscribers only 10.02.1996

Spotlight | Southern Africa
DOGMA SWITCH FOR WORLD BANK?

Michel Wormser, head of the World Bank's private sector development and economics division for Africa, considers that a three-day symposium in South Africa on reforming sub-Saharan Africa's electricity sector last week saw a growing consensus on the need for "discipline" [.

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.1995

Southern Africa
WHAT REFINING CAPACITY?

The closedown of existing refineries in southern Africa apart from those in South Africa remains as high as ever on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.1995

Spotlight | East Africa
ROUND-UP OF FRENCH INTERVENTION

The annual jamboree of French ambassadors and trade counsellors serving in East Africa and the Horn of Africa with representatives of French companies trading there, inaugurated in Nairobi by Kenyan finance minister Musalia Mudavadi, revealed an increase in competition on [.

Subscribers only 01.04.1995

East Africa
SOUTH AFRICAN BREAKTHROUGH

South African exports to East African countries increased considerably during first-half 1994 compared with the same period 1993, marking a [...]

Subscribers only 28.01.1995

Southern Africa
TARGETS FOR BRITONS

Overseas Trade Services, a British government body which coordinates export promotion, has published a list of target countries for Britain's [...]

Subscribers only 03.09.1994

Uganda
SHORT-TERM CAPACITY SQUEEZE

Projections by the Uganda Electricity Board indicate that electricity demand in 1995 could necessitate an available capacity of nearly 180 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.04.1994

Spotlight | East Africa
THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND CHINESE OUTSIDERS

Times are going to be very hard. With the arrival in East Africa of South African outsiders, of Chinese firms with price dumping in public works sectors, of Japanese companies' renewed aggressiveness in several sectors (telecommunications, electricity distribution, road construction), [.

Subscribers only 26.03.1994

Spotlight | Africa
AIR TRANSPORT CHANGES

New air routes, modernised and re-equipped airports, restructured national airlines, privatisation for some of them, creation of private regional companies, there's every sign that it's boom time for much of the region's air transport system.

Subscribers only 20.11.1993

Kenya
ELDORET-UGANDA PIPELINE PROJECT

The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is planning to extend the Eldoret branch of the new oil products pipeline to Uganda. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.11.1993

Spotlight | Southern Africa
HYDROELECTRIC COLLAPSE

Southern African power companies are being forced to make ever-increasing power cuts because of low water levels due to the unprecedented drought that has gripped the south-east corner of the continent this year. In Tanzania, the Tanzania Electric Supply Corp.

Subscribers only Energy 17.09.1992

Africa
IBRD AND IDA LOANS FOR 1992

Of all the countries covered by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, only Zimbabwe (125 million dollars in structural adjustment loans) and [...]

Subscribers only 12.09.1992

Tanzania
PROJECT FOR PRODUCTS PIPELINE

A local company, Africommerce International Ltd., has unveiled a plan to team with the state-owned Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp. (TPDC) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.07.1992

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Spotlight | East Africa COOPERATION IT AIN'T

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East Africa PARIS COUNTS POINTS

East Africa ADB TO UP EADB HOLDINGS

East Africa, France FRENCH FIRMS CONFAB

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Southern Africa WHAT REFINING CAPACITY?

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East Africa SOUTH AFRICAN BREAKTHROUGH

Southern Africa TARGETS FOR BRITONS

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Kenya ELDORET-UGANDA PIPELINE PROJECT

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Nigeria
The latest secrets of a $10bn legal scandal between Abuja and London

Cameroon, Central African Republic
Between business and politics, the secrets of Antoine Ndzengue's rise

East Africa
Customs Union in Trouble

Africa, United States
Mohamed Baraka

Spotlight | East Africa
COOPERATION IT AIN'T

Africa
HONOUR ROLE OF LENDERS

East Africa
PARIS COUNTS POINTS

East Africa
ADB TO UP EADB HOLDINGS

East Africa, France
FRENCH FIRMS CONFAB

Spotlight | Southern Africa
DOGMA SWITCH FOR WORLD BANK?

Southern Africa
WHAT REFINING CAPACITY?

Spotlight | East Africa
ROUND-UP OF FRENCH INTERVENTION

East Africa
SOUTH AFRICAN BREAKTHROUGH

Southern Africa
TARGETS FOR BRITONS

Uganda
SHORT-TERM CAPACITY SQUEEZE

Spotlight | East Africa
THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND CHINESE OUTSIDERS

Spotlight | Africa
AIR TRANSPORT CHANGES

Kenya
ELDORET-UGANDA PIPELINE PROJECT

Spotlight | Southern Africa
HYDROELECTRIC COLLAPSE

Africa
IBRD AND IDA LOANS FOR 1992

Tanzania
PROJECT FOR PRODUCTS PIPELINE